Posts tagged with “wisdom”
When You Want to Make Progress Fast and Feel Impatient
âTortoise was over the line. After that, Hare always reminded himself, âDon’t brag about your lightning pace, for Slow and Steady won the race!ââ ~The Tortoise and the Hare (Aesop’s Fables)
I was sitting in an introduction to calligraphy workshop when a fellow student asked the instructor, âWhat do I need to become a professional Calligrapher, what would it take?â
We were all on the edge of our seats with that one. It was as if we were about to learn the secret ingredient to Grandmaâs cookies.
The answer, to our surprise, was pen and paper.
âThe materials are no …
How I Found the Gift in My Pain and Let Go of Resentment
âChange is inevitable, growth is intentional.â ~Glenda Cloud
How much time slips by when youâre living in the pain of resentment? Do you ever question if your bitterness has held you back from living your true destiny? Is blaming everyone else sabotaging your life and future?
Itâs only now that I can admit to the years I wasted pointing the finger at everyone else. It was easier for me to say it was their fault than accept responsibility for my own decisions. For me, attaining perfection was validation of my success. If it wasnât achievable, then it was obviously …
How Yoga Gave Me the Courage to Stop People-Pleasing
âYoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.â Â ~The Bhagavad Gita
Growing up, I couldnât have been further from my âself.â Early childhood experiences taught me to focus all of my energy externally. To put everyone around me first and to be insatiably attentive to their needs. This kind of thinking instills you with an incredibly low sense of self-worth, disconnects you from your own feelings and desires, and ultimately leaves your happiness pinned to other people.
When you have low self-worth, you mostly want to contract away from the world like a turtle. …
If You Think Reaching Your Goal Will Make You Happy…
The path IS the goal.
The process is more important than the result.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
There are three very common, some might say cheesy and clichéd sayings you may hear when it comes to taking action to reach your goals.
Some of you are probably rolling your eyes already, and I did when I first heard quotes like these.
But Iâve recently realized something that has made me U-turn on a lot of my own old, outdated beliefs around goal-setting and achievement and acquisition of material things, or just generally âmaking itâ in life.…
How Holding On to Unrequited Love Keeps You Alone and Stuck
âLet no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.â ~James M. Barrie
My first experience with unrequited love took place when I was a little kid at swimming lessons.
I developed a huge crush on one of the instructors. I donât remember his name, but I remember the excruciating feeling of absolutely adoring someone who didnât even know I existed. I wish I could say that this was a one-time experience, but it wasnât.
Sadly, this pattern continued for many years. I seemed to have a radar device installed in my heart that would automatically fixate …
Why This Will Be the Year I Stop Running from Pain
âOne has to accept pain as a condition of existence.â ~Morris West
This may seem sounds counter-intuitive, but this year I want to let go of trying to avoid suffering.
It doesnât mean that I am a masochist and plan to spend the next year being miserable. Itâs more a question of learning to accept life as it isâuncertain, full of surprises, and with its full quota of difficult circumstances.
Our Wish for Happiness
The thing is that we all want to be happy. Thereâs nothing wrong with that, but if we fear not being happy, then we …
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